Days of Palestine, West Bank -Israeli occupation authorities have trained illegal Jewish settlers to use guns to prevent Palestinians working in lands near illegal West Bank settlements.
According to the leading Israeli newspaper Haaretz, illegal Israeli settlers of the four Gush Adumim settlements, in the West Bank near Jerusalem, have formed a volunteer policing unit to combat “Palestinian takeover of Gush land.”
Haaretz said that members of the unit recently underwent police training. The group is to prevent Palestinians from working in their farms or building in their lands near the illegal Jewish settlements of Kfar Adumim, Nofei Prat, Alon and Mitzpeh Yeriho.
The group of settlers also coordinate with the Jerusalem Periphery Forum, the objective of which is to prevent Palestinian construction on both sides of Highway number 1 –between Ma’aleh Adumim and Jericho.
A spokesman for the forum told Haaretz that the patrols are meant to prevent a repetition of constructing 22 buildings for Bedouin in several compounds in the area.
Facebook page of the forum said that work on the joint project with the police has been going on for a long time, and now “conditions have ripened for setting it in motion.”
“We will operate the unit to maintain security and guard the land of the Gush in full coordination with the Ma’aleh Adumim police and under their auspices,” the post said, “It also stressed that it meant to prevent Palestinian takeover of Gush land.”
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